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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … the Willa Cather Foundation’s Campaign for the Future . Book clubs and teachers around the country are encouraged to … from Cather's fiction, journalism, and letters written or set in Pittsburgh between 1896 and 1929 • Birthday cookies …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • Learn • Shop • Stay "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … grant funding, we have traveling exhibits, programs, and educational resources available through June 30, 2025. Participate in …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… Image Image NEA Big Read: My Ántonia Programs Offered to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
… status as a literary pilgrimage destination for more than fifty years. Just six months after the house reopened on Willa … with a sloping ceiling, like my 'rose-bower' in our old first home. Do you remember?" —Cather in a 1945 letter to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a live streamed virtual book launch and reading of Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing …
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The Potter Family
… given to few to live such a long and successful life and to pass away surrounded by so many relatives and friends. …
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Willa Cather Biography
… from and references to Cather’s own letters. Thus without question, the complex brilliance Skaggs saw in Cather during … more than that, of herself as a person. The character in question is the book's antagonist, Clement Sebastian, who … help secret Nancy, the enslaved girl, away from slavery to freedom in Canada. It concludes in a way reminiscent of …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway Set to Reopen in December of 2023 … National Willa Cather Center and participate in guided town tours of six additional historic properties related to …
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